<div>It would be odd for an evangelist of the Christian religion, or any other religion, to argue that people had no right of access to the "Technology" of the Christian religion - the book known as the Bible</div>
<div> </div><div>Really? </div><div> </div><div>You better revise your views</div><div> </div><div>apart the many secret cults (orphism, Gnosticism, Cathars, etc) the Catholic Church - mainstream, right? - put the Bible on the Index of Forbidden Books</div>
<div> </div><div><a href="http://withchrist.org/archives.htm">http://withchrist.org/archives.htm</a></div><div> </div><div>aldo<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 January 2012 15:44, Milton L Mueller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mueller@syr.edu">mueller@syr.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:12pt" class="MsoNormal"> It would be odd for an evangelist of the Christian religion, or any other religion, to argue that people had no right of access to the "Technology" of the Christian religion - the book known as the Bible.
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</div><p style="margin-bottom:12pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Depends on what you mean by a right of access. Christians (well, Protestants) fought tenaciously for the right to print it themselves,
read it themselves, and make their own interpretations. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">But none of them asked the government to buy them a copy. And when they did, they immediately got into new wars over what would
be the official state religion. The idea that states provide things with no strings attached is nonsense.
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<p style="margin-bottom:12pt" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">I think you are just being misled by the semantic distinction between government subsidies as a "right" and a right not to have
others deny you or take away access. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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